Alright, so I'm upgrading my computer. Just so I can play a certain game, I don't really want to over kill on anything, so I'm keeping the recommand and or above to play the game.

Game specs,

REQUIREMENTS_________MINIMUM_________RECOMMENDED

OS_________Windows 2000_________Windows XP or better

CPU_________Pentium 3 - 1GHz+_________Pentium 4 - 2.4GHz+

MEMORY_________256Mb RAM_________512Mb RAM

VIDEO CARD_________GeForce 2 MX_________GeForce FX 5600 or better

DIRECT X_________Version 9.0C or later_________Version 9.0C or later

HARD DISK SPACE_________2.0 Gb_________2.0 Gb

INTERNET CONNECTION_________Cable/DSL_________Cable/DSL or better



And I honestly have no idea what some of these are.
I'd like to know what

DIRECT X is, so I can see if I have it. And also where to find it.
OS is, I have an idea, but no idea at the same time.
CPU, I'm pretty sure is the driver.

And, I just got some shit, i.e ram, and getting a graphics card, its going to be this one
Diamond Stealth RadeonЎ 9250 256MB PCI, I'm pretty sure that will work, and I got a great deal on it.

So, can anyone help me on this?
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also, whats the difference between
intel Pentium 4 and just a Pentium 4? We have intel Pentium4. I was wondering if that would bother it any

OS is the Operating System.

Like Windows, Linux, Red Hat.

Direct X might be some sort of video/graphic helping tool.

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My god.

DirectX is an API. Application Programming Interface. You could almost call it a media library, to be horrifyingly general about it. If you are running Windows, you almost definitely have DirectX. If you don't, you're living in the dark ages. Your graphics card will demand you install it anyways, most likely. If not, the game you want to play will.

CPU is the central processing unit. It's one of the parts of your computer that does math. If you don't already understand what it does, go learn assembly or forget about it. It's a silicon chip on the motherboard, physically.

It's what tells your computer how to interface with various pieces of hardware, such as GPUs, efficiently.

Alright, we have a window XP, its pretty old, and the funny thing is, we don't even have a graphics card right now, I went into the computer and looked, we had 1 stick or ram, and no graphics card. our computers from like, 2005. Its pretty old, but I don't have money to put out for a good computer(yet). so I thought just upgrading graphics and ram would do me for a while.

But, intel Pentium 4 and Pentium 4, same thing? Or are they different?

Is the same thing.
Intel created the pentium generation so saying Intel Pentium 4 or just Pentium 4, is basically the same thing.
By the way, by the specs you've just said, I really doubt with the game requirements above that your computer will run the game smoothly.

Thank you on that. I'm currently in the process of getting above all the game recruitment. I'm personally think of going a ways ahead of that, incase updates go higher graphic cards. I used to be able to play it on my loptop 2-3 years ago, with the graphics card I had on that. My desktop never had a graphics card, nor ram. So I'm hoping I can switch from laptop to desktop.